Glossary

Elapsed time as clock time or real time, as contrasted with CPU or system resource time.

Unique record designations in a database table or set of data that are neatly sequential; for example, the first record is identified as row ID 1, the second record in the series is row ID 2, the third record is numbered 3, and so on. See record number, row ID, and ill-behaved row IDs.

Any character that is used to imply a partial search argument. The at sign ( @ ) is used as a wildcard in generic retrievals.